general norton schwarz, chief of staff, u.s. air force. general correlli, we thank you for standing in for general casey today and ask you to please extend our heartfelt condolences from all the members of the committee and the staff of the armed services committee to general casey and his family on the passing of his grandson jackson ryan casey. admiral roughead, you're moving closer to departure from your current position and may not have the opportunity -- should would probably not call it an opportunity to testify before this committee again. i want to express collective thanks of all the members of the committee for your 38 years of service and best wishes for the future. >> thank you. i join you in passing along my condolences to general casey. i welcome you all for being here and thank you for your incredible service to our country. don't ask, don't tell was put in place years ago. at the time it was hotly debated, discussed, studied and argued about. in the 18 years ó% to get their feedback and their opinions. i believe we have ana

gov and south africa's charles schwarz all has won the us masters to claim its first major championship emerge in the last four holes to win by choose shots from australia's jason day and adam scott overnight leader ruling knuckle roy had a nightmare in august and finished well them a field mcelroy between two houses on the tenth after wayward shot from a triple bogey this hole painful time for him and when he finally reached the greens his touch wasn't much better at getting the worst round of the day an eight over par eighty finish way down the leaderboard however he did things up the lead change hands eight times in the final round scott topped the leaderboard at one stage he hit a sixty seven. while they did enough to finish in second long silent and tiger woods also hit a sixty seven to tie for first place. but was sure to remote from the pack he hit the best round of the day a six under par sixty six and from the off he was looking good with shots like this approach on the third. at the end and closed with four bird is. finishing with this points to end on fourteen under our overa

choi he was pretty handy with a part of himself and al cabrera charles schwarz also tied for second place while tiger woods couldn't reproduce the form that saw him climb to third on friday problems on the greens again saw him caught a two over par round of seventy four. he starts day four in ninth seven shots back so out in front he's twenty one year old mcelroy a comfortable four shot cushion for him going into sunday's final round every chance of becoming the first irishman to win you know guster he's led from the off and was a very much in control of his two hundred round of seventy i was thinking of going you know trying to finish off their own really well to get it through really good shots in the last two will be nice the other part. but you know i'm happy with where with where things are you know i felt as if i handled you know my emotions really well like there today and you're going to keep it up to more. and it's now and seeded russian airliner vesnina is preparing to face world number one caroline wozniacki after making it through to the final of the family circle cup but they

. >> thank you, general schwarz. >> mr.hairman, congressman smith, members of the commit, thanks for the opportunity to report on air force implementation of the pending repeal of the don't ask, don't tell policy. our implementation plan comprises two key components. necessary revisions to policies and regulations and then training of all airmen. we will rely on steady leadership at all levels to implement this change in a manner that is consistent with standards of military readiness and effectiveness and with minimum adverse affect on unit cohesion, recruiting and retention in our air force. until applicable directives are updated and released, current policies remain in effect and will be enforced uniformly. over our team policy changes updates, recruiting guidance, standards of kubt and separation actions are the basis of our implementation training which began on february 14th and will complete on or about june 30th of this year. the air force is administering the three tier training program, which was developed in con

. >> thank you, general schwarz. >> mr. chairman, congressman smith, members of the commit, thanks for the opportunity to report on air force implementation of the pending repeal of the don't ask, don't tell policy. our implementation plan comprises two key components. necessary revisions to policies and regulations and then training of all airmen. we will rely on steady leadership at all levels to implement this change in a manner that is consistent with standards of military readiness and effectiveness and with minimum adverse affect on unit cohesion, recruiting and retention in our air force. until applicable directives are updated and released, current policies remain in effect and will be enforced uniformly. over our team policy changes updates, recruiting guidance, standards of kubt and separation actions are the basis of our implementation training which began on february 14th and will complete on or about june 30th of this year. the air force is administering the three tier training program, which was developed in c

also on the program, representative vicky hartzler, of missouri, and representative alison schwarz, democrattalking about the budget. the journal is live every day at 7:00 eastern. the house comes back in about seven minutes at 6:30 eastern. no votes on the budget tonight, but there are are several votes, including extending the reagan centennial commission. earlier today, spokemans mark toner said the u.s. supports the marketing of libyan crude oil by qatar on behalf of rebels fighting against muammar gaddafi. he gave these rashes at the top of today's briefing, here's that portion. >> just a cup of things at the top, then i'll take your question. questions, plural, i imagine you'll have more than one. secretary clinton did meet with sheikh amir today leading up to his meetings with other officials they discussed a range of bilateral issues including the situation in libya and the secretary did have the opportunity to thank s -- to thank him for qatar's hosting of this week's meeting of the libya contact group as well as qatar's support for u.n. resolution 73 and operation unified protector